Reviews for Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales

The average rating for Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-03-07 00:00:00 jason orans This book contains a great collection of wild and woolly tales about all manner of folksy fornication. Good gawd, those mountain folk sure loved to tell filthy stories! I was blushing (and laughing) the whole time I was reading. Here are tales too ticklish to tell your preacher, though certainly more than a few of the stories feature preachers and their rather "unholy" antics. Tsk, tsk! The title tale is perhaps the cleanest story in the book: One time there were two farmers that lived out on the road to Carico. They was always good friends, and Bill's oldest boy had been a-sparking one of Sam's daughters. Everything was going fine till the morning they met down by the creek, and Sam was pretty goddam mad. "Bill," says he, "from now on I don't want that boy of yours to set foot on my place." "Why, what's he done?" asked the boy's daddy. "He pissed in the snow, that's what he done, right in front of my house!" "But surely, there ain't no great harm in that," Bill says. "No harm!" hollered Sam. "Hell's fire, he pissed so it spelled Lucy's name, right there in the snow!" "The boy shouldn't have done that," says Bill. "But I don't see nothing so terrible bad about it." "Well, by God, I do!" yelled Sam. "There was two sets of tracks! And besides, don't you think I know my own daughter's handwriting?"

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-12 00:00:00 Aaron Zemmer This book was hysterical. Most of the stories were centered around sex, all of them were defined by this beautiful regionalism that too often is ignored. Hillbillies, people of the Ozarks region, and the people who live in the Appalachian territory are often caricatured by the image of inbred rapists taken straight out of Deliverance. This book goes a long way of combating that image I think, because it offers a second look by showing these people as humorous and at times self-parodying. Pissing in the snow is a collection of folk-tales and funny stories, recorded directly by Vance Randolph who studied folk-tales and regional narratives, and this book then is a fascinating glimpse at the way a people of a region crafted stories that would make them laugh, while understanding sexuality. This was a great read. You can read my full review of the book at my site White Tower Musings by following the link below: